Modeling the SARS Epidemic.

Dye C, Gay N.

　　 Communicable Diseases, World Health Organization, 1211 Geneva 27, Switzerland.Epidemiologists are still trying to understand how and why the SARS coronavirus has spread so readily throughout Asia and certain other regions of the world. In a Perspective, Dye and Gay discuss two new reports that use available data about the course of SARS infection to model the SARS epidemic (Lipsitch et al., Riley et al.).